Customer Travel Tips for Guayaquil
Customer Travel Tips for Guayaquil
Read a selection of great customer tips provided by HostelBookers customers like you
08 Jul 2016
Travel Type:
Alone
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Age Range:
31-40
Customer Travel Tip: Visit the historical center
Liked: Sightseeing
Disliked: Big city
01 Sep 2015
Travel Type:
With friends / other travellers
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Customer Travel Tip: Use the buses over taxis. A lot cheaper and easy to use
Liked: Weather sites transport
Disliked: Na
13 Aug 2015
Travel Type:
With friends / other travellers
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Customer Travel Tip: Just a stopover place
Liked: Not much to do
Disliked: Not much to do
21 May 2015
Travel Type:
Alone
Trip Type:
Sightseeing & culture
Customer Travel Tip: Be prepared to sweat.
Liked: Park of the Iguanas is cool.
Disliked: Too hot and humid.
14 Apr 2015
Travel Type:
Alone
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Sightseeing & culture
Customer Travel Tip: Parque Bolivar
Liked: Iguanas in Parque Bolivar, MAAC museum (free entrance)
Disliked: Buses sometimes don't stop to pick you up
11 Apr 2015
Travel Type:
With my spouse / partner
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Customer Travel Tip: No need to stay long
Liked: Transport hub
Disliked: Big city
28 Mar 2015
Travel Type:
Alone
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
City break
Sightseeing & culture
Customer Travel Tip: Would recommend only staying for a day or two
Liked: The malecon boardwalk is beautiful, worth seeing if only for a day or two
Disliked: Very hot and humid, not the safest city
08 Feb 2015
Travel Type:
With my spouse / partner
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Work / volunteering
Customer Travel Tip: Don't stay here too long.
Liked: It was hot. Good place to go shopping and stock up on supplies.
Disliked: Noisy, chaotic, polluted and not a very safe city.
28 Jan 2015
Travel Type:
With my spouse / partner
Trip Type:
Sightseeing & culture
Customer Travel Tip: just for one day!
Liked: nice
Disliked: weather!!
27 Jan 2015
Travel Type:
With my spouse / partner
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Partying / nightlife
Sightseeing & culture
Work / volunteering
Customer Travel Tip: If you'd like to stay close to the many activities, bars and restaurants downtown has to offer stay in the las peñas neighborhood.
Liked: The MAAC museum downtown was a highlight. Guayaquil also has many nice parks.
Disliked: No
11 Sep 2014
Travel Type:
With my spouse / partner
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Sightseeing & culture
Sports, adventure or outdoor activities
Work / volunteering
Customer Travel Tip: Don't stay here, not worth it. If you are going to Galapagos, it is cheaper to get a flight from here, but it is an absolute waste of time
Liked: Malecon is nice
Disliked: Very depressing, no culture, not for tourists, also very expensive!
31 Aug 2014
Customer Travel Tip: BEST AVOIDED. DO NOT EVEN CONSIDER STAYING HERE.
Liked: Absolutely nothing to like about this hostel. Thinking of staying at this hostel？ Be warned, stay away from this hostel.
Disliked: STAY AWAY FROM THIS HOSTEL‼ I booked this hostel through hostelbookers.com and i have received confirmation e-mail. I showed up at the hostel and asked staffs to check me in,showing confirmation e-mail to them. What they told me then really shocked me because they told me they had no room that was available. They knew I was coming, apparently,but took group of people came asked for room instead of me. They did not even make apology and they were rude.please go somewhere else.
19 Aug 2014
Travel Type:
As a family with children
Trip Type:
Sightseeing & culture
Customer Travel Tip: nothing
Liked: La penas
Disliked: nothing
10 Aug 2014
Travel Type:
With friends / other travellers
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Customer Travel Tip: walk only on the main streets
Liked: nice view
Disliked: unsafe
06 Aug 2014
Travel Type:
Alone
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Customer Travel Tip: The mountain in the left of the malecon (with the lighthouse) climb it! There are heaps of friendly little bars and restaurant next to the 400 stairs.
Liked: Not much.. but see my tip
Disliked: Big city, loads of people, loads of cars
25 Jul 2014
Travel Type:
As a family with children
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Sightseeing & culture
Sports, adventure or outdoor activities
Customer Travel Tip: trying the local food and just walking the city centre to explore
Liked: architecture and ambience
Disliked: no
01 Jul 2014
Travel Type:
With my spouse / partner
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Customer Travel Tip: Roasting hot all the time, dress accordingly
Liked: Quite a modern city, could easily be mistaken for a town in the USA. One of the safest cities I've been in in south America.
Disliked: As it was so modern, I didn't feel I was discovering the true culture of Ecuador in it.
19 Jun 2014
Travel Type:
Alone
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Beach / sunbathing
Sightseeing & culture
Sports, adventure or outdoor activities
Customer Travel Tip: Don't have any tips on Guayaquil as I did not do anything here except for a sleepover on my trip from and to Galapagos.
Liked: Only stayed at Guayaquil as a stopover on my flight to Galapagos
Disliked: Did not see anything so cannot dislike what I haven't seen.
06 May 2014
Customer Travel Tip: Walk the Malecon and hike up to Cerro Santa Ana Lighthouse
Liked: I enjoyed the Malecon
Disliked: Lot's of traffic
26 Mar 2014
Travel Type:
With my spouse / partner
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Customer Travel Tip: just pass through, not much to do or see
Liked: not much
Disliked: not much to see here